St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-21
The General Passenger and
Ticket Agents Adopt a Uni
form Coupon Ticket.
The Willmar b Sioux Falls
I Road Transferred to
the Manitoba.
Premier Norquay UtterlyFails
j to Place the Red River
1t Line Loan.
A Change Of Policy by the
Northern Pacific--Rail-
way Notes.

Ninety representative general passen-
ger agents of the leading railroad lines
of the United States answered to the
roll call at the semi-annual convention,
held in the ordinary of the Ryan hotel
yesterday morning, President Charles
p. Atmore in the chair. Under the reg
ulati0ns of the association the meeting
was conducted with closed doors, but,
as Secretary Smith said afterward, there
the public ''could have witnessed with
.impunity." The principal item of bust
ness in the forenoon was the adoption
OF the report of committee appointed
at the last meeting to submit uniform
style of coupon ticket, and two forms
were presented, one requiring the sig
nature of the passenger, and the other
minus this provision. Otherwise the
tickets were exactly alike, and, as
adopted by the convention, it is thought
will simplify the business arrangements
of connecting lines. The ticket adopted
has an agents stub, to be kept and re-
turned with the monthly report. This
contained instructions to agents and the
price of the tickets. The ticket proper
contains the usual contract which the
purchaser enters into with the road
issuing it and has a coupon attached,
in the margin of which is stamped or
written the destination of the holder.
In the discussion that enSued it was
shown that these tickets are SubStan-
TALLY the same as those now used on the
leading railroad lines of the United
States, but was desired when uniform
coupon ticket for all roads in the inter
est OF conductors and accountants.
Another important matter to railroad
men was the adoption of resolution
requiring that rate sheets should be
REPORTED QUARTERLY
instead of monthly as at present, and a
recommendation from the convention of
general baggage agents favoring the
reporting of excess baggage money to
foreign lines the same as in the case of
coupon tickets These topics occupied
the attention of the convention during
the forenoon and the closing session
began at 3 o'clock and eliminated
in winding up of business shortly
after o'clock yesterday afternoon.
At this session proposed form of tour
it's tickets was presented and referred to
a committee, with instructions to report
at the next meeting, which will be held
at st. Augustine, Florida, the third
Tuesday of March, 1888. The names of
the committee on this subject were an
nounced to be: Messrs. Flanders, Bos-
ton q Maine; Monett. New York Cen
trail; Thrall, Chicago & Northwestern,
and Hanson, Boston & Albany. Sixteen
members were admitted, and after pass
ing resolutions of regret for the death
of Mr.. G. r. Van Benthuysen, of the
Albany Day line, the convention adj
journed. Many of the delegates were
accompanied by their families, and in
honor of the convention the city was il
Illuminated last evening and all the
agents took a look at the gorgeous
spectacle.
80 To-day the members of the conven-
ton, with their friends, the party en-
bracing upwards of two hundred and
fifty, will go to Lake Minnetonka,
where they will spend the day, and sub
sequently those who desire to avail
themselves of the opportunity will be
given an excursion over. the Manitoba
road.